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Mossad: Mossad Officer
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According to a report of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of 1976, published by Iranian authorities, Mossad consisted of 1,500 to 2,000 personnel, of which 500 were officers. Activities were divided into 8 departments: 1) Operational planning and coordination, 2) Collection, 3) Political action and liaison, 4) Manpower, finance, logistics and security, 5) Training, 6) Research, 7) Technical operations and 8) Technology. It is likely that Mossad remains of about the same size today and covering about the same operations.
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Israel's most celebrated spy, Eli Cohen, was recruited by Mossad during the 1960s to infiltrate the top echelons of the Syrian government. Cohen radioed information to Israel for two years before he was discovered and publicly hanged in Damascus Square. Another Mossad agent, Wolfgang Lotz, established himself in Cairo, became acquainted with high-ranking Egyptian military and police officers, and obtained information on missile sites and on German scientists working on the Egyptian rocket program. In 1962 and 1963, in a successful effort to intimidate the Germans, several key scientists in that program were targets of assassination attempts. Mossad ... succeeded in seizing eight missile boats under construction for Israel in France, but which had been embargoed by French president Charles de Gaulle in December 1968.
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Failure to predict Egyptian actions leading to the Yom Kippur War in 1973 forced the resignation of several top officers, including Mossad director Zvi Zamir (1968–74). Yet, on July 3–4, 1976, Mossad more than recovered its reputation with the daring raid at Entebbe, codenamed Operation Thunderbolt. After intensive intelligence-gathering at the site, the Israelis assaulted the plane, rescuing all but four of its 97 passengers and losing a single officer—along with 20 Ugandan soldiers—in the process.
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When the Tamils started fighting the Singhalese for independence in 1983, the Singhalese President Junius Jayawardene brought in 50 Mossad officers to train his security forces at a place called Maduru-Oya. This was not scret. It was in all the newspapers.
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The whole crisis, as ultimately relayed by Time, was fomented by a Mossad officer who was a member of Moledet, a right-wing party hostile to anything resembling a peace process. The 63-year-old officer, Yehuda Gil, retired in 1989 but was still filing intelligence reports to the spy agency because his longtime Syrian mole was regarded as critically important. But there was no such highly placed Syrian source. Gil, noted for his Mossad training course titled "The Lie as Art," was making everything up and pocketing the money he was meant to be handing over to his agent.
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It is highly unusual for Mossad personnel to break cover, and it is an indication of their strong objections to the film that so many have chosen to go on the record. The Atlantic Productions film contains interviews with David Kimche, the British-born former deputy head of Mossad; Efraim Halevy, former head of Mossad... British-born; Ehud Barak, the former prime minister and in April 1973 a member of an elite special forces unit which raided Beirut to kill three PLO figures; and two anonymous agents the broadcasters claim were involved in the hits identified as officers K and G.
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